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The sudo command is a program for some Unix and Unix-Like operating systems, that allows a user to execute programs with the security privileges of another user. Typically those of a superuser or the root user.

I have an MacBook Pro constructed in mid 2014. I do a lot of work on it, and my son does his gaming on it, but when I upgraded to OS X Yosemite, my account (which was the administrator) got demoted to ...

We have several tier2 admins whom have very limited admin rights granted via sudo; As they have limited experience we really want to put them into a tight set of operations they can perform.
One of ...

I've got a question for you today my dear Linux friends. I'm a windows user primarily. I use it for my work, watching movies, listening to music, playing games, browsing the net and everything else ...

I had python 2.6 in my server to begin with. Then I downloaded python 2.7 and installed using make and make altinstall. When I try just python in the terminal it opens up python 2.7 but sudo python ...

I was wondering if there is a way to make sudo set the --set-home flag based on the command being executed.
e.g. in most cases I do not want the --set-home flag to be set, but for npm, I want it to ...

I have two machines, both providing no root login, but provide sudo root access.
Now I like to initate a rsync transfer of root files over ssh. Is there an easy way make the the root access given by ...

In OS X, how can I determine if an app launched via the open command was launched with elevated permissions?
I tried as an example sudo open http://www.google.com/, but Activity Monitor doesn't seem ...

Within a single bash session I am repeatedly re-running a command prefixed by sudo. Typically the password should be requested once and then cached. However, the present behavior is that the password ...

I'm using Bash on Debian Squeeze. I just read this topic: change default text editor for crontab to vim
I have exported both variables VISUAL and EDITOR to vim for normal user and for root. And this ...

I'm having trouble to understand how the PATH variable is affected by sudo. I can run the command activator as a normal user because I've added the path where this application resides to that user's ...